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Next month is the Tokyo Game Show and we’re sending our crew to explore the Makuhari Messe convention halls to see what new games and technology is coming our way in the future! The slogan for this year is “Welcome to the Next Stage”. I’m guessing there is going to be more advancements in VR tech as well as futuristic gaming concept demos (like walking on a treadmill in an astronaut suit) so we’ll do our best to cover it all! Look forward to our video coverage and podcast.

For the first time, RtP! is sending a camera crew to cover the world’s largest cosplay competition championship in Nagoya, Japan. Even though we’ve lived in Japan for the past few years we haven’t been able to make it to the event before. For those that don’t know, cosplay teams from around the world gather in Nagoya and perform on stage in the final rounds of the competition on August 6 and 7. There’s also a number of cosplay related events taking place in the weeks prior to the championship.

Design Festa is the largest art festival in Asia which is held biannually at Tokyo Big Site in Odaiba, Japan. Artists from all over the world are invited to express themselves in any way they see fit through their work, regardless of their age, nationality, or even their talent. The festivities include a bazaar, stage performances, and most notably, live paintings by artists on canvases that range in size from a couple meters to a couple stories tall which are painted for the duration of the weekend long event. With no limits or restrictions on what can be exhibited, there are plenty of interesting, beautiful, and sometimes disturbing things to be seen here. RTP’s own Lost Link and Seagz retuned once again to see what was in store this year.

AnimeJapan is the biggest animation event in Japan where companies will set up booths to showcase and announce upcoming shows. This year Lost Link and Seagz visited the event with the intent to tag team video coverage. Although it was nowhere near as busy as Comiket, over 135 thousand attendees were strolling around the halls of Tokyo Big Sight.

My favorite anime of last year was a show by the name of Death Parade. It’s about arbiters. People who judge the souls of humans after they die. Only they’re bartenders who make their guests play games which decide the fate of their souls. It’s an original story by Yuzuru Tachikawa and not a manga adaptation. Besides being fantastically animated by Madhouse, it has a really interesting and surprisingly moving story. I decided I wanted to cosplay the main character so I started planning on putting the costume together for February’s Katsucon. It’s a fairly simple outfit so it’d be perfect to still be able to move around and film in during the event.

It’s certainly been awhile since our last update. The website caretakers must all be on vacation. In terms of what’s new, Lost Link has been busy piling on the video projects and here is an update on what may be released sometime soon!